Posted by: Olga Kharif on December 03

Streaming Web video just might be one of those services that will come into its own during this economic downturn. Only a week ago, Google's YouTube launched YouTube Live, which streams video channels via the Internet. Today, social network MySpace Mobile has claimed the title of the first social portal to launch video streaming (albeit in beta) for mobile phones.

Posted by: Rob Hof on May 15

That's what Jon Gibs of Nielsen//NetRatings calls social-networking sites, which the market research firm today says attracted almost half of all Web users--led by MySpace, of course. There are certainly...

Posted by: Rob Hof on March 30

Poor Tom Anderson, the cofounder of MySpace. (Well, not really poor, having sold to News Corp. last year for $580 million, but anyway.) It seems the most popular T-shirt...

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